Young Christian Students

In a time littered with evolving uncertainty, faith remains our guide to solace, to unity. Young Christian Students (YCS) has been a central piece of instilling that faith in action, in the hopes that it will ripple through our school community and contribute to alleviating the pressures of this daunting time. As a segment of a larger Catholic youth movement that is completely student-based, we hope to create a space devoted to the needs of our peers and the wider Christian circle. YCS continues to embody the significance of student leadership and offers an outlet for student initiative and expression. It is a reflection of the inclusive nature that lies at the heart of our school, hence we heavily prioritise not only supporting but empowering student voice, putting it forth to inspire creative and sustainable growth. 

Our most recent initiative is based on stress management, both within ourselves and the wider school community. Being students on the senior campus, our studies are crucial at this stage and it is easy to neglect oneself and grow consumed with the demands of our final years of school. Possessing the skills required to manage stress effectively is significant, especially in the sense that it is long lasting and will be applicable through every stage of life, it will condition us as young adults to face our futures unbound and to the best of our abilities. 

Currently, we are working in partnership with other YCS teams in neighbouring schools, and hope to bring this conversation to light by extending our reach to Catholic communities beyond our own. We aim to produce a series of stress management videos, which contain diverse methods of approaching stress at various stages. Managing stress is a process that is unique to the individual, but we hope our videos can serve as a reference point to set the process in motion or inspire it further. These are intensely uncertain and trying times, hence the videos produced will not only aid us all in managing stress as it arises, but they will also provide the opportunity to grow both individually and collectively through the strength of one another. 

The video series will be releasing a video every few weeks and can be found in our Online Assemblies, posted in Google Classrooms and in College Social Media accounts. Please take the time out of your busy day to watch these videos so that as a community so that we may See, Judge and Act. 

Haswhitaa Manyoor